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Emergency services in rural and semi-urban areas are not easily accessible and often not well-resourced to cope with emergencies. This includes the provision of emergency treatment in the case of burns, blocked airways, traffic injuries, wounds, heart failure and other illnesses. A short response time is essential to save lives or mitigate the consequences. Bakwena Platinum Corridor Concessionaire (Pty) Ltd, (Bakwena), in partnership with the South African Red Cross, developed a Disaster Management project in 2013 in the Bapong/ Majakaneng area. Since then another 4 teams were added which covered Hammanskraal, Mooinooi, Swartruggens and Groot Marico area. The main objective of this project is to provide communities with the resources to become self-reliant by having access to trained groups of First Aid and Disaster Management Teams linked to professional emergency services, as well as access to individuals with training in home-based care, firefighting, drug recognition and others

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